free time

[amiliko]

I spend much of my free time juggling between my computer and gaming machines, i've seen a report that states that technology is making us anti-social, but I thought we were getting more social, with the facebooks and twitters.. I guess I'll have to make more time for real life connections!

 

[Ace]

I spend much of my free time juggling between my computer and gaming machines, i've seen a report that states that technology is making us anti-social, but I thought we were getting more social, with the facebooks and twitters.. I guess I'll have to make more time for real life connections!

What are you doing on GBAtemp, then?

I was out for a maximum 2 hours today, I'm usually out around 4-6 hours, or none at all. Got a girl's number, too.

TL;DR GET OUTSIDE! CARPE FREAKING DIEM!

 

[pistone]

twitter and fb doesnt make you more social ...........you can easy have 500 friends ,talk to 300 and drink coffe with 3 :S its just a illusion

 

[Nathan Drake]

Social networking is the most anti-social aspect of the internet. It's feigning social interaction.

 

[xist]

I don't do any social networking in the recognised sense. I've never understood the difference in opinion between message boards and things like facebook though.

 

[Nathan Drake]

I don't do any social networking in the recognised sense. I've never understood the difference in opinion between message boards and things like facebook though.

I use message boards for the beauty of being totally anonymous unless I choose to divulge details about myself. I mean, you can try pulling that on something like Facebook if you don't intend on seriously using it, but I've found many uses in Facebook that make being able to openly communicate with people I know useful. Message boards, although a community is created, it isn't a social network in the same sense as something like Facebook. Twitter falls somewhere in the middle. You can lie about your name and everything and still have 25,000 followers, or you can tell the truth and put all of your personal details and end up the same. Then in the long run, regardless of if you are recognized or not, you're probably going to have the same level of social interaction on Twitter.

 

[Blaze163]

I actually know everyone on my Facebook friends list, as well as a lot of other people who don't use FB for various reasons. I may only have about 50 or 60 people on my profile instead of 150 thousand, but I actually know them. These 'social networking' things are OK for keeping in touch with people long distance, but they're no match for genuine human interaction. Knowing people actually care about what you have to say as opposed to just seeing them post 'lol' on every status update out of habit. People who honestly think that the thousands of people on their friends list are actual friends piss me off. I'm willing to bet that these 'collectors' as I call them (primarily because they tend to be so ugly and socially inept they remind me of the collectors from Mass Effect 2) don't know more than maybe a dozen of the people they claim to be 'best mates' with. It's sad.

I enjoy being here on the 'Temp, but given the choice between posting here or going to a barbeque at my friend Suzie's house, I'll be signing out, breaking out the chorizo and lettin' the good times roll. Bollocks to the internet.

 

[Ace]

I enjoy being here on the 'Temp, but given the choice between posting here or going to a barbeque at my friend Suzie's house, I'll be signing out, breaking out the chorizo and lettin' the good times roll. Bollocks to the internet.

I'm like-minded to you, I believe

For distances relationships, be it old-time friends or complete strangers on Omegle, or the unique personalities on GBAtemp, the internet is a pretty useful and efficient tool for communications.

Outside of that, it pretty much works like a porta-potty. No flush, odiferous excreta, spiders, and the risk of being tipped over into everyone's fecal matter.

 

[Pyrmon]

Meh, screw social interaction.
If I have to choose between talking to the hundreds of morons out there before finally finding one interesting and intelligent individual versus going on-line and finding thousands of interesting and intelligent individuals before finding one moron, I'll go with the latter.

 

[xist]

but I've found many uses in Facebook that make being able to openly communicate with people I know useful.

I know literally no-one outside the people i communicate with on message boards, rendering that aspect of social networking pointless to me and ultimately it'd be more depressing than useful.

"Oh look, i have no network.... sadface.jpg"

 

[DarkShinigami]

tbh SN sites are crap i use to be glued to one but i quit(yeah im talkin to you FB) any way as for social this is the best place to be social online (IMHO).

 

[Gahars]

Most of my free time goes into either my 360, or my laptop. From there, I can be found either reading TV Tropes articles, chatting on skype/irc, screwing around in Paint.net, several different forums, etc. Besides that, I like to read if I have a good book nearby.

 

[machomuu]

I only use FB to talk to friends I don't often come in contact with and talk to girls, though I usually do this via my email.